Maritime Nerds?

[Snow White Sorrow]

Hi all,

It's great to finally come across such a huge site for naval sims; even if I'm not that interested in Silent Hunter anymore (I insist SH3/GWX is all I need).

I'd like to know if there's anyone like myself around here; I like to spend hours reading about the Hood and Bismarck love affair, poring through every article on combinedfleet.com, etc

Before hopping into an age of sail game to enjoy the sheer (lack of) speed of a 9 knot ship of the line and of course, total lack of fire control and personal hygiene.

[TarJak]

No-one around here matching that description I can think of...

Welcome aboard matey. Stow your gear below and lend a hand at the windlass.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard matey

[Castout]

Another patient

Welcome! Something about the sea that I like there's no one in it

[Snow White Sorrow]

A patient of all things!

I guess I have decided to seek specialist advice for withdrawal syndrome from addiction to all things historical and military

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Snow White Sorrow

A patient of all things!

I guess I have decided to seek specialist advice for withdrawal syndrome from addiction to all things historical and military

We seem to suffer from the same syndrome. It's a costly syndrome somewhat at least for me in here, you'll find yourself browsing the military and history section in the bookstores looking for that perfect book again and again it's like smoking marijuana....maybe

Then look for games that relate to what you've read and vice versa . . .
Darn it . . .

[Snow White Sorrow]

Location: Jakarta

Frighteningly close by!

[Castout]

LOL..that explains the similar syndrome then . Maybe you caught it from me perhaps we passed by at some time.

My order was tanks-submarines-planes-warship then I went to a bit into history such as Naval warfare in WWI and the Napoleonic period and then into the medieval times(now that's what I called fighting, 12 hours or more of hand to hand combat with armor on that's just insane)

and the cycle then repeats itself tanks-submarines-planes-warship.....I can't seem to find a way out

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Snow White Sorrow

A patient of all things!

I guess I have decided to seek specialist advice for withdrawal syndrome from addiction to all things historical and military

You've come to the wrong shop for... er... specialist advice for withdrawal syndrome from addiction to all things historical and military, brother.

Welcome aboard!

[Snow White Sorrow]

Played Pacific War back in 1992 and watched my elder brother mess with "boring" supply convoys and land battles. What caught my eye was ships being set on fire in bombing raids and my favourite, surface engagements.

Before long I 'managed' battlefleets for him and eventually took over the entire game. While my brother would gain air superiority the "correct" way by sending in carrier battle groups, I would generate decoy invasion convoys with 'expendable' small merchant ships and lots of heavy antiaircraft ships and let the Japanese attack aircraft get swatted down in droves against them.

Before PacWar there was Falcon 2.0, 3.0 then Aces of the Pacific since I was I believe, 6 years old or less. Again I employed vastly different tactics from my brother.

After the family split up I was still into wargaming (I grew up with the Gulf War generation) but was playing tactical command games like Close Combat, etc. And no small gesture dominating the local Counter-Strike cafes with good application of SWAT style team tactics.

Then I got bored of wasting my time on these simple things and went into fantasy roleplaying where all the infantry combat tactics became translated into medieval form. Once I got sick of the silly soap operas and went to Tribes 2 for the combined arms experience, kicked ass in innovative bomber tactics (I was one of the few to do dive bombing and IFR + EW tactics which made my bomber totally uninterceptible), got bored of the arcade kids and the patches that dumbed down the game, found IL-2 and was in heaven ever since.

Still later I got bored of IL-2 - again game patches ruining all my historical ACM implementation and no interest in teamplay and historical missions. That's what brought me back to naval gaming although I started first from the age of sail.

After another bout of Victorian MMORPG gaming (and getting sick of the soap opera & lack of teamplay) I developed a realistic sailing and battle maneuvering project for an age of sail RPG before ending up here wanting to relearn the technical basics of modern naval warfare in Dangerous Waters.

Being a legal secretary in my day job, this background is totally unexpected of me and all.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Snow White Sorrow

I'd like to know if there's anyone like myself around here; I like to spend hours reading about the Hood and Bismarck love affair, poring through every article on combinedfleet.com, etc

I've spent literally years working on my own WW1 tabletop miniatures game. It's no closer to completion now than it was a decade ago. I collect books like the Anatomy Of The Ship series, have most of Conway Press's Warship Quarterly magazines (or the collected volumes), and Warship International.

I don't play games at all - no MMOOPF whatevers, no RPGs (though I've dabbled in those from time to time). Anything I 'play' has to involve real history - flight sims (not on the computer, but with friends), ship games and of course computer sub sims.

You have no idea...

WELCOME ABOARD!